Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earth's surface.
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Human Geography - A description of employment opportunities provided by the Association of American Geographers.
Association for Border Studies - Features membership details, board of directors, information on meetings and calls for papers, and contacts.
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Borderbase - Portal features reference materials related to international borders and tripoints. Includes photos, links and news.
Meta Description: [ Borderbase is your quick reference to international borders and tripoints
on the internet and includes photos, facts, links and news ]
Climate and Health Research Program - A research group concerned with climate and health, urban health and wellness and environmental epidemiology. Features descriptions of research projects, links to related resources, and contact information.
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Climate Change and Human Health Integrated Assessment Web - Provides information about the potential impacts of climate change through integrated assessment to support policy development and analysis.
Meta Description: [ This site provides information about the potential impacts of
climate change through integrated assessment to support policy development and analysis. ]
Community Development in the 1990s - A report describing how the National Community Development Initiative (NCDI) has successfully helped underwrite the efforts of community development corporations (CDCs) around the United States.
Meta Description: [ Community Development in the 1990s ]
Consensus-Building in a Multi-Participant Spatial Decision Support System - Abstract of an article by Robert D. Feick and Dr. G. Brent Hall that describes integrating and visualizing spatial data sets for regional planning. The complete text of the article is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
CSISS Search Portal - The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science offers discussion forums and extensive search resources for locating Human Geography information.
Meta Description: [ This page provides links to course syllabi taught by leading researchers in spatial social science, organized by discipline. In all cases, the researchers are considered by CSISS to be leaders in the analysis of space within their disciplines. ]
Cultural Landscapes - A catalog of US maps showing the cultural modification of the landscape as settlers established farmsteads and villages, and named their surroundings.
Cultural Landscapes - Lecture notes providing a discussion of the social landscapes of North America.
Economic and Business Geography - Outlines several definitions of economic geography and discusses research issues related to the field.
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Economic Geography Research Group - Promotes research in economic geography by organising meetings, developing contact and cooperation among geographers and other social scientists, and encouraging the publication of research.
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Four Dimensions of the Center-Periphery Conflict in the Polish Electoral Geography - Tomasz Zarycki argues that Polish electoral geography is based both on political ideology and elements of the spatial distribution of the population
Goss, Jon - Contains photo essays and academic papers on subjects such as consumption, shopping malls, tourism landscapes, geodemographics and artisanal fisheries. Department of Geography, University of Hawaii.
Meta Description: [ Photographic essays and papers on cultural geography, from shopping malls in North America and ghost stories in New Orleans, to tourism in Hawaii and traditional fishers in Ambon, Indonesia ]
H-HistGeog: Historical Geography - H-Net discussion group dedicated to examining the intricate relationship between space and time. Features subject overview, archive and subscription information.
History of the U.S Cultural Environment - A research and bibliographic guide to UC Berkeley print and web resources for the study of the cultural geography of the United States.
Meta Description: [ History of the U.S. cultural environment: A guide to research. ]
Human Geography Department at Macquarie University - Features information for current and prospective students, staff profiles, current research, publications, and contact details. Also offers links to related resources, career opportunities and calendar of events.
Meta Description: [ Human Geography, Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia ]
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Human Geography Directory - An annotated directory of human geography resources hosted by the University of Leicester.
Meta Description: [ A WHOLE HOST OF RESOURCES FOR HUMAN GEOGRAPHERS ]
Human Navigation - An article from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science by Herbert Pick that discusses cross-cultural research into environmental knowledge and wayfinding behavior.
International Boundaries Research Unit - Home page of the International Boundaries Research Unit, (IBRU) located at the University of Durham. A source of information on boundary and territorial issues around the world.
Meta Description: [ Home page of the International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU) at the University of Durham ]
Lansdowne Geographic Research - Essays in historical and sports geography by Philip McEachern.
Mable/Geocorr - A web application that generates report files documenting a wide array of U.S. Geographic entities.
Meta Description: [ Option-rich web application to generate reports and/or csv files documenting
a wide array of U.S. geographic entites such as cities, census tracts,
metro areas, ZIP codes, etc. Output can be lists of codes such as all cities in a state or county, or can be a
correspondence file showing how ... ]
Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety - Discussion and examples of crime mapping. Features an overview of current research, publications, bibliography, and links to related sites.
Meta Description: [ Crime Mapping & Analysis Research and Information from the Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS) program, at the National Institute of Justice. MAPS promotes research, evaluation, development, and dissemination of spatial technology and spatial data analysis for criminal justice research... ]
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Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country - A critical analysis of the literature surrounding the field of economic geography.
National Atlases: Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography - Historical overview of statistical atlases and census maps that express the cultural landscape of the United States.
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National Geography Standards - An outline with excerpts from the publication of the same title produced by the National Geographic Research and Exploration. An educational guide that discusses the spatial integration of human and physical phenomena distributed over the Earth's surface.
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Prisoners of Geography - An article that explains why landlocked nations may never enjoy access to the markets and new technologies they need to flourish in the global economy.
Program for the Human Environment - A research center at Rockefeller University that explores how long-run technical change relates to productivity and efficiency of energy, materials, land, and other resources, and the consequences for human populations.
Project Gigalopolis - A research project working to extend and refine the Clarke Urban Growth Model for making predictions at regional, continental and eventually global scales.
Project Vital - A laboratory for the study of geographic information technologies as they relate to transportation. Features project overview, links to related resources, job opportunities, and contact details.
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Regional Inversion - Essays by Luis Suarez-Villa, of the University of California, Irvine. Features sections devoted to the role of innovative capacity, tangible and intangible infrastructure, and a description of inversion at the metropolitan level
Residential Energy Consumption Survey - A report on geographic information about U.S. households and their energy usage from 1978 to 1997.
Meta Description: [ national level data on energy-related issues on households in the residential sector. ]
SDSS for Location Planning, or The Seat of the Pants is Out - A paper by Larry Daniel that reviews the general characteristics of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) applied to site analysis.
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Sex Differences in Geographic Knowledge - A Sex Roles journal article describing gender differences in acquisition of environmental knowledge related to wayfinding behavior, spatial anxiety and self-estimated environmental competencies.
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Sociology of the Environment Research Group - A group that carries out social research on environmental topics with the aim of providing inputs to the formation of policy and practice.
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The Canadian Communities Atlas - Offers links and resources for exploring the cultural geography of Canada. Features statistical profiles of communities, resources for educators, and general and contact information for the project.
The Maritime Cultural Landscape - An essay describing the concept of traditional maritime zones of transport in terms of human geography.
The Society for Human Ecology - An international and interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an ecological perspective in both research and application.
Meta Description: [ The Society for Human Ecology (SHE)is an
international interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an
ecological perspective in both research and application. ]
The Spatial Economy - Article by Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman and Anthrony Venables that describes the dramatic increase in research on economic geography. Includes a discussion of spatial aspects of the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition.
Transport Geography on the Web - A project developed to promote access to transport geography information. Includes material to support undergraduate courses, including articles, exercises, GIS-T datasets, and PowerPoint presentations.
Meta Description: [ Transport Geography Reference Web Site. Introduction to transportation including articles, exercises, GIS-T datasets, and PowerPoint presentations. ]
UKBorders - An archive that provides the digitized boundary data associated with the 1991 Census of Population of the United Kingdom.
Meta Description: [ EDINA is a academic resource for users in higher and futher education. EDINA offers bibliographic databases, maps and mapping data, UK borders data, multimedia collections, and learning and teaching materials. ]
Urbanizing GIS - A discussion of how Philadelphia is trying to apply GIS (Geographic Information Systems) effectively to the complex circumstances that surround neighborhood planning in a troubled urban environment.
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Virtual Cultural Geography Lesson - A gallery of pictures covering many aspects of cultural geography.
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